1.Starting an unproven QB who has played very little on gameday since his arrival.
2.Lost our best football mind (The Fridge) and he's being replaced by another unproven.
3.The O-Line is young an inexperienced.
4. The Defense could be on the field a whole lot this year. Will they were down again?
5. Most of our winnable games are on the road this year. Flood is not going to happy valley and Ann Arbor this year and winning
This is a 6 win team
Don't bank on just 6 win, if you are going by 1 to 5, because there are an equal number of reasons to suggest Rutgers will win more than 6.
#1) despite being the starter for 3 years, last year's QB was unproven and considered unreliable by many .
This season RU has a potential replacement with 3 years in the system and one of the top QB from the class of 2013 that
now is in his second year as a Scarlet Knight and should be getting more comfortable running the RU O.
#2) lost our best football mind (as OC), but retaining him as a consultant to help the new OC that is supposed to be an up and comer
in the coaching ranks
#3) Brodie RS Jr, Denman RS Jr, Lumpkin RS Sr, Miller RS Soph, Muller RS Jr, Nelson RS Jr and all have had some playing time.
Add the RS Freshmen ( who you can say are young) and the OL shouldn't be a worry, because it is talented along with haveing the experience needed to be a successful OL
#4) RU has some running backs that along with an experienced OL might eat up the clock and tire out the opposing D.
#5) Overcoming home field advantage is what all visiting teams must do, even the ones that come to HPSS to play Rutgers.
Maybe some of the loses expected at home, could turn into winners because of home cooking .
When you look for reasons why RU can lose, don't forget the reasons why the Scarlet Knights can win more games then it loses.
Rutgers needs to win the games it's expected to, no matter where it's played, beat the teams that might be toss-up games, no matter where game is played and pull off an upset at HPSS crediting home cooking for that.
Maybe pull one off on the road , because Upsets Happen (as long as it doesn't happen to RU )
I'm not into Doom and Gloom before the season starts. I look for the positive , which helps me look forward to the season starting.
I'll let others (so called realists ) dread how RU will do in 2015, I'll expect the same as last season , beating the expectations naysayers
have put on them.